{"id":1915,"date":"2012-02-01T09:54:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T14:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:45:16","slug":"idioms-for-reading-comp-the-other-meaning-of-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/idioms-for-reading-comp-the-other-meaning-of-save\/","title":{"rendered":"Idioms for Reading Comp: The Other Meaning of &#8220;Save&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.jenisfamous.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/12\/imgres.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"imgres\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/>We find that there are some words that people never look up because they are &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/There_are_known_knowns\">unknown unknowns<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; that is, you don&#8217;t even know what you don&#8217;t know!<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that even the simple word <i>save<\/i> has another meaning?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<b>Save<\/b> \u201c but or except.  As a verb, of course, save means keep safe, store up, set aside.  But as a preposition or conjunction, save can be used as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All of the divisions of the company are profitable <strong>save<\/strong> the movie-rental division.  (This means that the movie-rental division was not profitable.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>He would have been elected President, <strong>save<\/strong> for the scandal that derailed his campaign at the last minute. (Here, save means except.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more on Idioms for Reading Comprehension, see Chapter 5, &#8220;Idioms and Metaphorical Language&#8221; in <a href=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/storeitemshow.cfm?ItemID=90\">Manhattan GRE&#8217;s Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence Strategy Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- ddsig --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We find that there are some words that people never look up because they are &#8220;unknown unknowns&#8221; &#8212; that is, you don&#8217;t even know what you don&#8217;t know! Did you know that even the simple word save has another meaning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,12],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-reading-comp","category-verbal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7174,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/7174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}